Upon its founding in 1819, Alabama was given three electoral votes, which it gave to President James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States in 1820. The number of votes was increased to five in the general elections of 1824 to 1840, then again in 1844 until 1860, when the state seceded from the Union.

District Judge Anna Manasco sided with the Justice Department and civil rights groups that said the effort came too close to election day and included eligible voters

A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections

A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state “blew” a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election.

Fairway is based in Wisconsin and operates in Birmingham under the name MortgageBanc. The Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claimed that Fairway discouraged residents of Black neighborhoods from applying for mortgage loans.

The judge wrote that Allen’s office “blew the deadline when he announced a purge program” just 84 days before the 2024 presidential election.

Federal law prohibits changing voter rolls less than 90 days before an election. The judge said Alabama’s secretary of state “blew the deadline.”

Voters across Alabama will be able to vote for or against Amendment One on Nov. 5. While it is being voted on statewide, it will only affect a few counties. State Rep. Jamie Kiel (R-Russellville) sponsored the bill during the legislative session earlier this year.

A federal judge Wednesday blocked the state of Alabama from conducting a voter removal program that state officials claimed was targeted at noncitizens on voter rolls. In a five-page order, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco stopped Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen from “inactivating” people who had noncitizen identification numbers,

A judge temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program after finding the state violated federal law by systematically purging voters too close to this fall’s election.

Judge Anna M. Manasco, a Trump appointee, said that Alabama must stop moving voters from active to “inactive” status, as the presidential election is just three weeks away.